Adaptation and Mitigation 

Special guests John D. Liu and Dr. Jem Bendell join Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez at COP27 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, to discuss the topic of adaptation and mitigation with respect to climate change.
The response to the climate emergency requires both mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation refers to efforts to reduce or prevent emission of greenhouse gases. Adaptation is the process of adjusting to current or expected impacts of climate change. The need for adaptation varies from one location to another, depending on the risk to human or ecological systems.
The panel will present various facets of the urgent need for a mitigation and adaptation response such as covered in the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment report as well as the need for governments, corporations and the media to communicate to citizens in a more meaningful way when describing the gravity of the climate crisis and the consequent societal and behavioral changes that will be needed.
The panel will also cover the topic of the restoration of ecosystems, technological innovations such as renewable energy, various means of drawing down carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as well as various forms of solar radiation management.
This video was recorded on November 9th, 2022 and published on December 4th, 2022, and represents the opinions of the discussion participants.
Links:
- IPCC Sixth Assessment Report - Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/
- Climate Emergency Institute (Peter Carter)
www.climateemergencyinstitute...
- Deep Adaptation Forum (Jem Bendell)
www.deepadaptation.info/
- Boring Averages and Climate Brightsiding - big mistakes in climate comms during #ClimateWeek
jembendell.com/2022/09/16/bor...
- Decoupling debunked: Why green growth is not enough
eeb.org/decoupling-debunked1/
- Ecosystem Restoration Camps
ecosystemrestorationcamps.org/
- John D. Liu - compilation of works
knaw.academia.edu/JohnDLiu
- Commonland
www.commonland.com/
- Send an email to John D. Liu
mailto:johndliu@icloud.com
- Ocean Pasture Restoration and the New Paradigm (CEF Video)
• Ocean Pasture Restorat...
- The MEER Framework (CEF Video)
• The MEER Framework
- MEER Update - November 2022 (CEF Video)
• MEER Update - November...
- MEER - Cooling the Planet with Surface Reflectors
MEER.org
- Marine Cloud Brightening (CEF Video)
• Marine Cloud Brightening
Special Guests:
John D. Liu - Journalist, filmmaker, ecologist and Ecosystem Ambassador for the Commonland Foundation, whose work has helped to show that it is possible to restore natural ecological systems. He is the founder of the Ecosystem Restoration Camps Movement that has, together with many partners, created 56 Ecosystem Restoration Camps throughout the world. John has produced, filmed, written, directed, and presented dozens of films on Environment and Ecology that have aired on the BBC, National Geographic, Discovery, PBS, and other networks.
Dr Jem Bendell - Professor of Sustainability Leadership at the University of Cumbria (part-time) as well as Founder of the Deep Adaptation Forum, co-Founder of the International Scholars’ Warning and publisher of the Deep Adaptation Quarterly. He focuses on leadership and communications for social change, as well as approaches that may help humanity face climate-induced disruption. He is a singer-songwriter with the band Sambiloto.
Regular Panelists:
Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer and director of the Climate Emergency Institute
Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa in the Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University
Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate
Video Production:
Charles Gregoire - Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth & the Climate Emergency Forum; Climate Reality Leader
Heidi Brault - Video production and website assistant, Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP27 Team Lead for the Climate Emergency Forum and Facing Future; BA (Psychology); Climate Reality Leader
Our Website:
climateemergencyforum.org/
Acknowledgement:
We'd like to acknowledge these two organization without which our attendance at COP27 would not have been possible.
- Sustainable Population Australia (SPA)
- The International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE)
Attributions:
Background Music:
- Title: Through the City II
- Author: Crowander
- Source: Free Music Archive
- License: CC BY-NC 4.0
Image and Video: climateemergencyforum.org/ass...